Quotes About Loyalty

That's why I love that kid. I can get a proper roasting from him and still be good friends.

I vowed after that day that I would be your hero too, no matter how long it took

It's one thing to call off an engagement or even a wedding once the invitations are out—it's hard, but it happens. But on the actual day? You're walking, sister. Get yourself down that aisle and do whatever you have to do afterward, you know?

I'd begun to take for granted that he'd always be around... The only problem with all of this was that I wasn't exactly holding up my end of the deal.

There was nothing the least bit radical about her. In fact, she was the most conventional creature alive. She believed in true love, and loyalty to one's monarch, and death before dishonor. It was just that, sometimes, things didn't quite turn out as one would have wished. In those cases, there was nothing to do but carry on. And on and on and on.

They even revealed the existence of the plot to Magellan; they confided that if the plot succeded

even if he believed he was entitled to do so under his own contract with King Charles.

There was more. Cartagena was to function as the eyes and ears of the king throughout the voyage.

a Magellan loyalist, he resisted the temptation to hear or repeat any ill concerning his beloved captain.

but at the same time he turned a blind eye to the scandals and mutinies surrounding Magellan

Magellan served at the pleasure of his Castilian captains, rather than the other way around.

Mesquita functioned as Magellan's agent of agony, deciding who was guilty of treason and who would suffer the consequences. No wonder the men hated him.

Why would the queen greet Winter, a mutineer, with open arms?

guarantee this voyage, he had sacrificed his allegiance to his homeland, his partnership with Ruy Faleiro

By bringing in Haro, the king and his advisers would be giving up a significant amount of the profits.

he gave Molino a brutally simple choice: He could either be executed along with his master

spare his own life by beheading his master.

The Magellan of February teetered on the brink of being murdered by the men he commanded.

Magellan found himself in a difficult position. He could not bring himself to condemn a priest—even a disloyal priest—to death.

King Manuel ordered the harassment of Magellan's relatives who remained in their homeland.

that King Manuel had refused to back the navigator, humiliating him over and over again.

punishment of Ferdinand Magellan's crime of moving to Castile.

if they continued with their plan to sail for Spain; they would offend God, King Manuel

Magellan replied that he had formally renounced his allegiance to King Manuel and given his loyalty to King Charles.